July, before 17, 1918

During the session do not converse, but only exchange notes.

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1 Basis for dating: the note was written by Lenin during a session in response to a note from N. P. Gorbunov concerning the organization of the Food Institute with a promise to present a decree on the matter for consideration by the Council of People's Commissars within a few days. The Regulations on the Food Institute were adopted by the Council of People's Commissars on July 17, 1918 (see Minutes of the Council of People's Commissars No. 158, arch. IMEL No. 11707).

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NOTE TO COM. T. I. POPOV.

Comrade Tikhon Ivanovich Popov.
1.VII.1918

I request you to **accelerate and facilitate in every way** the disbursement to applicants—comrades Finns.1

Your Lenin.

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1 T. I. Popov—manager of the Moscow office of the People's (State) Bank.
The note was written by Lenin during the reception of O. Pukkinen. It concerns the disbursement of funds for the provision of aid to refugees following the defeat of the revolution in Finland.

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TELEGRAM TO THE PERM GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Perm
Gubernia Executive Committee.
Copy to the Committee of the Russian Communist Party.

1. VIII. 1918

When Usievich1 arrives in Perm, send him immediately to Moscow. [210]

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.

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1 G. A. Usievich (G. Tinskii)—one of the leaders of the October uprising in Moscow, member of the Moscow party committee, was sent to Siberia to collect grain. Killed in combat with the Czechoslovaks (see *Pravda* No. 166 of August 8, 1918).